University of Southern California, Department of Sociology
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TRANSMISSION OF RELIGIONS ACROSS GENERATIONS (TRAG)
The goal of TRAG is to examine how religious values and practices are transmitted or transformed across generations. It assesses how much influence parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents may have on the younger generations' religious orientations, beliefs, and practices; how such influence is maintained in some families across generations and seems to disappear in others; and how religion is changed or transformed by new generations in other families. The study is based on Vern Bengtson and Merril Silverstein's USC Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG), a 35-year panel inestigation involving more than 3,000 individuals and 350 multigenerational families.
I began working for TRAG as an interviewer in the summer of 2007, at the end of my second year as a doctoral student. For the 2007-2008 academic year, I was a research assistance and contributed to the project's coding and analytic efforts. Currently, I am collecting data for TRAG and writing a paper on the transmission of values and religious practices across generations in immigrant families.
Some of our recent works:
Lam, Joy, Frances Nedjat-Haiem, Thien-Huong Ninh, Petrice Oyama, Susan Harris, Norella Putney, and Vern Bengtson. "Religious Continuity, Change, and Complexity in Multigenerational Families." Presented at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA: November 19, 2007.
Harris, Susan, Norela Putney, Joy Lam, Thien-Huong Ninh, Fran Nedjat-Haiem, Petrice Oyama, Vern Bengtson. "Continuity, Change, and Complexity in Religious Affiliations across Generations." Presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL: November 2-4, 2007.
| Transnational Religious Communities: Caodai, Hoa Hao Buddhism, and Dao Mau | Transmission of Religions across Generations | California Votes Initiative |